wet felting
My All Time Favourite Comment – Daffodowndilly
I love all the kind comments that people leave on my facebook page, but the following comment left in response to my new Daffodil hat is really my all time favourite. It is a poem by A.A. Milne Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind…
Read MoreAmelia Earhart, Eat Your Heart Out
If Amelia Earhart was still around, I feel certain that she would have commissioned me to felt her a hat like this. I also feel certain that she would have loved Linda Ruth, who did commission me to make this hat. I met Linda Ruth a few weeks back at the Lunenburg Farmers Market and…
Read MoreA Slipper Slope and a True Vacation
Happy New Year. Tomorrow is back to school day for the boy and back to reality day for the mom. Fortunately, my reality is pretty fantasy. In past years, I have gone from intense hat making for orders straight into intense pajama making for my boys and, not too surprisingly, I never quite got…
Read MoreMy favourite Sale
Not to say that all my hat sales are not my favourite, but every once in a while there is the perfect union between hat and head that feels like divine intervention. Today was the Hubbard’s Christmas Market and this lovely tall and stylish lady came up to me and said how she really wanted…
Read MoreDusty and the Fire Hat
This year, despite being ridiculously busy around the holidays, I decided that nothing was too good for my little boy. I was going to make him the ultimate hand felted hat. Some facts about Dusty, His favourite colour is red. This is because, Akkar, the coolest Bionicle is red. He adores all things powerful that…
Read MoreCome September
Fall has arrived in Nova Scotia. My friend insists that if you don’t leave the house till noon and you are in by 5 then you can pretend it’s summer, but really it’s fall. The good news is that fall is the most incredible season here. The sky is so blue, the light is intense…
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